MEDICARE SCAM: $97 MILLION FOR MENTALLY ILL PATIENT BUT TO WATCH MOVIES AND PLAY GAMES.

MEDICARE SCAM: $97 MILLION FOR MENTALLY ILL PATIENT BUT TO WATCH MOVIES AND PLAY GAMES.

While money were been paid of taxation for the intensive, outpatient care for mentally ill patient, those patients where playing games and watching movies.

It was part of a Medicare scam run by two Houston doctors who defrauded the system out of $97 million over five years.

Physician Mansour Sanjar, and Cyrus Sajadi, the owners of Spectrum Care P.A., along with several of their employees, were allegedly accused of a medicare scam. They were convicted by a federal jury on Thursday.

From 2006 through 2011, the doctors had been orchestrating a scheme in which they overbilled Medicare for services that were not performed and, in many cases, which their patients were not eligible to receive.

According to the U.S justice department, Sanjar and Sajadi billed Medicare for services when the beneficiaries were actually watching movies, coloring and playing games, activities which were not met by Medicare.

An investigation by the FBI and the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that many others patients at the facility were not covered under Medicare for any services.
Sanjar and Sajadi paid kickbacks to employees at other facilities and sometimes directly to patients.
The two physicians and five others convicted will be sentenced in September.

Source from Watchdog/